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Published on: May 30, 2014
Observation of thermal-induced optical guiding and bistability in a mid-IR continuous-wave, singly resonant optical
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing-hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Abstract:
We report the observation of thermal-induced optical guiding and bistability in a mid-IR cw, singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (SRO) at approximately 3.2 microm. The SRO employs a MgO:PPLN crystal as the gain medium and a 1-nm-linewidth Yb-fiber laser at 1.064 microm as the pump source. As soon as the pump power reaches the thermal guiding threshold at 16.5 W, the SRO shows a step increase in the parametric efficiency by a factor of 2.5. At 25 W pump power, the SRO generated 5.3 and 1.2 W at 1.58 and 3.23 microm, respectively, with single-longitudinal-mode performance for the 3.23 microm radiation.
